Dealing With Ziz: Spirit of Forgetting (#02 in Strategies For The Threshold Series)

If you haven't read the first book in this series--Dealing with Python: Spirit of Constriction--it's probably best to start with that one as the two go together. As with all of Hamilton's books, this one involves a strong spiritual foundation and a deep dive into the meaning, poetry and associations of words.

The basic premise is that when you're about to cross the threshold into the calling God has given you, it's not surprising that you would experience attack from the Enemy who doesn't want you to fulfil your God-given destiny. The spirit of Ziz entices us to forget what God has done for us and what He’s called us to. The opposite of remembering is actually dismembering—a tearing apart of truth. I can see many examples in my own life where that has happened. There’s a lot more to it than that, and Hamilton builds up her case from scripture. Some of the material in this book is new to me and I’m still getting my head around some of it. But I also found a number of keys to issues I’ve faced. It also sheds a different light on some of the spiritual warfare tactics that have become popular in some Christian circles, but actually go against scripture. Recommended for anyone who has felt a blockage to entering their calling and would like some food for thought and strategies for dealing with it.

What if there was a principality that caused us to forget - therefore we would not know what to repent from? What if there was a principality/spirit that took the truth and would totally shred it apart? \\n\\nI bought this book because I was getting so upset that I would forget things time and time again. Forget to organise my daughters collection after school, forget where I put my glasses, forget, forget, forget. Where are my memories - why can't I remember my childhood, why does my sister tell me things and I just don't remember these things? \\n\\nI was getting so upset. I felt like I had talons in my brain. Maybe this forgetfulness is more than """"just me""""?\\n\\nI finally in desperation, came across Anne Hamiltons work - this unknown super author in Queensland. And I found out about her, in a little conversation with a little old lady at church telling me about Anne's other works. She said she'd email me - and I forgot to check for the email. Months later, I was reminded of Anne and when I saw this title, it opened that door of perhaps . . . . \\n\\nThis book has surprised me, because it's helped me deal with my memory, under the amazing covenant, care and love of Jesus. But, with so much happening today, gender identity theory, school curriculum of untruths taught, governments looking you in the face of how we need to act on things, yet doing dodgy deals behind the scene, politics - there is so much dismantling of truth. What if . . . . \\n\\n